Sustainable furniture brand Takt is the latest to choose leather from Spoor to enhance its commitment to transparency and sustainability. By Leatherbiz.

Spoor is a spin-off from wet blue and wet-white producer Scan-Hide. It uses a laser-based system for marking and identifying hides. The identification marking remains in place after leather finishing.

Finished product manufacturers can use the traceability this provides to share the full back story of the leather in their products. This includes the country of origin, and the breed and the birthplace of the individual animals the material came from.

In the case of Takt, it has used Spoor leather in the upholstery of its Bow chair.

Founder and chief executive of the Copenhagen-based furniture company, Henrik Taudorf Lorensen, said it had been an easy decision to choose Spoor. He added that using its traceable leather was a way of improving Takt’s offering to customers, which he said was a source of pride.

He pointed out that using the material in the Bow chair also implied benefits for leather. The chair has EU Ecolabel certification as testimony to its sustainability.

Mr Taudorf Lorensen explained that, unlike many textile products, leather on its own cannot have the EU Ecolabel. For this chair to have it, though, proves that leather’s environmental credentials are in keeping with the requirements of the label.